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5.0 out of 5 stars
B'hash Ind'heed, October 3, 2009
This review is from: Fathers Day B'hash (Audio CD)
Heartily recommended to avant-garde aficionados; others beware! My 5 star rating comes with some reservation, and is mostly based on 6 of the 9 tracks, which provide more than 50 minutes of very good to wonderful music. Two of the other tracks contain lengthy cacophonous maelstroms which, while certainly impressive and worth hearing, are probably not something I'll listen to much in the future. And the third features an overdubbed squeaky door--perhaps enough said.
Bob Moses, who's on the faculty at the New England Conservatory, is an outstanding percussionist. His nine-member group here features veteran multi-reedist Stan Strickland and seven highly talented current or recent students at NEC, who contribute trumpet,violin, bass, and 4(!) more saxes. The music is mostly of a spontaneous improvisational nature, and aligned with the leader's Buddhist philosophy. His liner note states that "the player must leave behind all self, thought, personal agendas or anything they know or have played before...The idea is to meet and play as one from `zeroness'..." The result is some (mostly) fairly intense, highly spiritual, and beautiful music. The recording and meticulous engineering provide a nice transparent sound, where all the instruments can be heard quite clearly.
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